February 06, 2006
Robot as a RFid driven shopping assistant to be tested at a shopping mall in Japan
NTT Communications and Tmusk would be testing an RFid driven shopping assistant at a shopping mall in Fukuoka. The robot would be able to read RFid tags embedded in the floor and provide information about its location. The pilot test would start from 9th February and last till 15th February. This robot can assist both in store shoppers and remote shoppers at home. The in-store shoppers would have to select a destination in the mall using a touch screen mounted on the robot and it would walk the shopper to the store based on the location information obtained from the RFid tags. The robot can help the remote shoppers as it would enable the shoppers to view the in store environments through the robot’s camera and communicate with sales agents through videoconferencing.
via [Ubiks]
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